The more important highlights of Britain Day on 4 March are:
- Uk Uk Uk Uk Ukrainian Family Visas opened today and will welcome 200,000 Ukrainians to the UK
- The British government froze the property of two Russian oligarchs and enforced a travel ban
- The London Stock Exchange suspended transactions with 27 Russian-related companies
- Russia has banned a number of Western news organizations, including the BBC
- Uk energy prices continued to soar, with oil prices in London peaking at £2/litre
- For the first time, the average house price in the UK broke through £260,000, equivalent to 6.7 times the annual income
The latest epidemic data shows that the epidemic data in the United Kingdom on Thursday, March 3, 45,656 new positive cases of new crown, and 194 new new crown deaths. A new test of 702,451 was added in a single day, and the new one in London was not updated.
The cumulative number of positive COVID-19 cases in the UK is 19,074,696, and the cumulative number of COVID-19 deaths is 161,898.
In terms of the latest vaccinations, as of March 2 (including the day on the 2nd), a total of about 52.65 million people in the UK (91.5% of the population over 12 years old) have received one dose of the new crown vaccine, about 49.04 million people (accounting for 85.3% of the population over 12 years old) have received two doses of the new crown vaccine, and about 38.28 million people have received three doses of the new crown vaccine (66.6% of the population over 12 years old).
A total of 45,484 doses of vaccine have been given in the UK in the past 24 hours.
The latest figures show that more than 1 million people have fled Ukraine since the russian-Ukrainian conflict began last week.
In response, the British government introduced the Ukrainian family scheme, which promised to help more than 200,000 Ukrainians travel to the UK to reunite with their families during the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Initially, the UK only issued visas to the immediate family of Ukrainians currently living in the UK, but the visa has been extended to parents, grandparents and siblings since Tuesday (1 March), and applications will officially open today (4 March).
Home Secretary Patel will travel to Medyka, on Poland's border with Ukraine in eastern Poland, to inspect Ukrainian refugees about to enter the UK mainland.
Before leaving, Patel said: "At this critical moment when the Ukrainian people are fighting for freedom, the British government will do everything in its power to support them." ”
"After discussions with Ukraine and other neighboring countries, I developed a Ukrainian family plan. We will launch this programme as soon as possible so that Ukrainians with family members in the UK can be safely and quickly sheltered. ”
In addition to issuing visas to Ukrainian families, the UK government is also mulling another sponsorship scheme that allows individuals and organisations to bring Ukrainians to the UK.
On March 3, local time, the United Kingdom released the latest round of sanctions on its official website, freezing the assets of Russian oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Shuvalov, and enforcing travel bans on the two.
The British government said both men had significant wealth in Britain and had close ties to the Russian government.
Among them, Usmanov is known for investing in and sponsoring Premier League football clubs Arsenal and Everton.
In addition, he owns beechwood House, which is worth around £48 million in Highgate, and the Dutton Place property in Surrey.
Shuvalov's assets in the UK include two luxury apartments in central London, priced at around £11 million.
Meanwhile, the UK government will set up an Oligarch Taskforce next week, led by Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and made up of officials from the Home Office, Treasury, Business Energy and Industrial Strategy, Housing communities and the National Crime Agency.
This group of experts will coordinate cross-government efforts to establish a list of eligible Russian oligarchs.
Before the opening of the market on Thursday (March 3), the London Stock Exchange said it would suspend trading on the LSE "according to market conditions and maintain market order" and take effect immediately.
These companies include: Sberbank, Gazprom, Russal producer EN+, Lukoil and Russian gold producer Polyus.
The London Stock Exchange said on Tuesday (March 1) that it would stop trading licenses from the Russian Foreign Trade Bank (VTB).
According to British media reports, Russia has blocked domestic users from accessing a number of Western news organizations and social media.
These include news organizations such as the BBC, Deutsche Welle, Radio Liberty, social media twitter, Facebook and several app stores.
As a result of the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, energy prices in the UK have been soaring, with the highest oil price in parts of London even soaring to £2/l.
On Tuesday (1 March), the average price of petrol in the UK rose to 1.517 pounds/litre, and the average price of diesel also set a new record of 1.552 pounds/litre. At the same time, electricity prices in parts of the UK have also risen rapidly. West Yorkshire, for example, had electricity prices as high as 172p/l last week.
At a gas station in Chelsea, London, a driver who had added a total of 4.5 litres of petrol was charged more than £10, the equivalent of oil prices having soared to more than £2 (£2.195) per litre.
The latest data from British mortgage lender Nationwide showed that the average house price in the UK exceeded £260,000 for the first time in February, the highest level on record in 1952.
Meanwhile, annual house prices in the UK grew by 12.6% in February, up from 11.2% in January and the highest since June last year.
The average income of a full-time worker in the UK last year was £31,285 compared to rising house prices.
In other words, the price of an average UK home is equivalent to 6.7 times annual income, up from 5.8 times in 2019.
Nationwide analysis said that strong demand for home purchases and limited market stock will keep UK house prices rising.
*Last, the outbreak chart updated on 3 March, including case growth and regional distribution in the UK.
UK daily infection/death/hospitalisation/testing data trend
Distribution of confirmed cases across regions in England
The distribution of confirmed areas in all cities in the UK, updated on 3 March, including England, Scotland, Wales
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The ranking of urban infection rates, updated on March 3, is ranked by the number of confirmed cases per week divided by the number of people
The following is the specific distribution of new confirmed cases in England today, listing the top 50 cities.
Regional distribution of confirmed cases ranked in the smallest regional unit (MSOA).